- Sunday, 12 April 2026
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One killed in road accident
One person died in a road accident involving a tractor in Laligurans municipality of Tehrathum last night. Two others have been seriously injured.
Rahuganga rural municipality highly vulnerable to landslides
Human settlements in the rural municipality of Myagdi are at risk due to 216 landslides. There are 216 landslides in eight wards of Raghuganga rural municipality of Myagdi and the settlements are at risk due to those landslides.
Hospitals pulling out of health insurance program
Issuing a notice on Friday, TU. Teaching Hospital (TUTH) announced to discontinue the insurance services from June 29 reasoning that the Health Insurance Board (HIB) failed to reimburse the necessary amount in exchange for the provided services timely. TUTH is associated with the health insurance program from the year 2020.
Light to moderate rainfall expected
There is a possibility of light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning in many places across the country today.
CPN (US) Central Committee meeting today
The Central Committee of the CPN (Unified Socialist) is meeting today. The meeting to be held at Karki Banquet in Baber Mahal is scheduled to review local level elections, upcoming action plan, organizational situation and the ruling alliance.
‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ is special
New York, June 25: Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp were at a bit of a career crossroads when they manifested Marcel, a one-inch-tall seashell with a tiny voice and a big heart.Slate had recently been let go from “Saturday Night Live” after one season and wasn’t sure if she’d get another chance to do comedy professionally again. Fleischer-Camp, meanwhile, had dreams of directing but nothing had stuck yet and he was feeling stalled. It was in this time of uncertainty that they found themselves at a wedding, sharing a hotel room with about five other people to save money. Slate started speaking in a little, funny voice.Add a forgotten promise to make a short film for a friend’s comedy show, $6 of raw materials from a corner bodega and some DIY stop-motion filmmaking, and 48 hours later “ Marcel the Shell With Shoes On ” was born. When they put it on YouTube in 2010, it went viral. Pretty soon after Hollywood came calling. The feature film, a documentary-style portrait of Marcel, his grandmother Connie, who is voiced by Isabella Rossellini, and his search for his lost family, opens in limited release Friday and expands July 15.It was anything but an easy or straightforward path to the big screen, however. In the 12 years since that moment of inspiration, Slate and Fleischer-Camp were married and divorced. And they’d quickly come to realize that what they wanted out of a Marcel movie and what the big Hollywood studios wanted were very different things.“All of those ideas were centered on grafting Marcel onto a more familiar tentpole action-adventure franchise,” Fleischer-Camp said. “I remember one studio suggested that we partner him with John Cena and they, like, fight crime or whatever.”Slate was not interested in compromising either.“I have a very low tolerance level for changing my own stuff just so that it can be produced or released or whatever,” Slate said. “At the end of everything, the art is actually all that we have. It’s so weird to give it away on meager terms just to say that someone’s putting the movie out.”Still, the dream of a Marcel movie lived on and even bloomed in the clarity they got from the misbegotten studio ideas. Eventually they found a partner that would be supportive of their vision to keep Marcel small in A24.“It was so obvious that the way to make this movie was to paint a very dignified portrait of Marcel in a documentary style, to tell a really personal and honest story about grief,” Fleischer-Camp said. “What was wrong with all those other ideas was they were trying to blow it out. And Marcel does not need to be blown out. He’s already tiny in a blown out, oversize world.”But they’d have to scale it up in some ways to make a feature and so they enlisted Kirsten Lepore, a stop-motion specialist they’d met on the film festival circuit, to be the animation director overseeing a team of some 50 people. They tried to keep it as DIY-feeling as possible, but some compromises had to be made. First, Lepore hired a team of professional stop-motion animators. She was shocked to hear how Fleischer-Camp had made the shorts by himself (by editing down one continuous take instead of putting together shots of still photography).“When it is stop motion, no matter what you do, you still are going to retain a lot of that charm because it’s a real object moving around,” Lepore said.And then there was the question of the shell itself. Though they wanted to mimic the short and use a real snail shell, she said the hunt was surprisingly impossible. Instead, they settled on using a 3D print, which still had to be customized to capture the intricacies and skin-like translucency of a shell.They also had to shoot the entire movie twice after the audio was fully recorded—once in live action and once in stop motion. Lepore herself was there for both, holding a model of Marcel in the live-action shots so that the cinematographer could get the lighting and focus right.“People know that the stop motion process is slow, but I think they don’t realize, like, how slow,” Lepore said. “It would take one animator working on a stage an entire day to do a shot that was five, maybe 10 seconds long.”When Fleischer-Camp looks back at the earliest days of Marcel, he knew that they had something special even then.“People always ask me if I knew that it was like going to go viral. And it sounds so arrogant, but I was like, ‘I kind of did,’” Fleischer-Camp said. “People really connect with this little character.” And now they hope the film will connect with audiences, too.“It’s really funny and it’s a story that will really excite you and touch you and make you feel alive,” Slate said. “And we made it like that on purpose.” AP
Pokhara Metropolitan City brings new budget of Rs 8.77 billion
Deputy Mayor of Pokhara Manju Devi Gurung on Friday presented the budget giving priority to tourism promotion, sustainable infrastructure development, environment protection, garbage management, institutional development, good-governance and self-employment, entrepreneurship and commercial agricultural system.
Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City tables budget of Rs 2.35 billion
Releasing the budget for the upcoming year on Friday, Deputy Mayor of Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City Sabitra Devi Aryal said Rs 600 million would be managed from internal income source while Rs 16.1 million from the federal government's equalization grants.
Birgunj Metropolitan City unveils budget of Rs 3.33 billion
Presenting the budget, Deputy Mayor Imtiaz Alam said 62.04 per cent of the total budget has been allocated toward current expenditure and 37.96 per to capital expenditure.
Dhangadhi brings new budget with top priority on social development, infrastructure
Tabling the new budget, Deputy Mayor of Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City Kanda Kala Kumari Rana announced Rs 1.03 billion for current expenditure while Rs 807 million is allocated for capital expenditure.
Dharan unveils budget of Rs 1.68 billion
Deputy Mayor of Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City Aindra Bikram Begha unveiled the budget allocating Rs 833.7 million for current expenditure and Rs 819.5 million for capital expenditure. The city has allocated Rs 32.5 million for fiscal management for the upcoming fiscal year.
Nepal struggles with high adolescent fertility rate
The fertility rate among adolescents is found to be high in Nepal. According to the Child Welfare Division, the fertility rate among adolescents (15-19 age group) is 63 per cent.
Three bills tabled in Upper House
Three bills have been tabled in the meeting of the National Assembly, the Upper House of the Federal Parliament, today.
KMC unveils Rs 25.41 billion budget
Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol presented the budget in today's municipal assembly. The new budget is seven billion more compared to the current fiscal year. The KMC had unveiled a budget of Rs 18.95 billion for the current fiscal year.
Education is guideline for country's development: PM Deuba
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has stated that education is a guideline for a country's development. Higher education should focus on producing a workforce by exploring the resources, opportunities, need and priorities of the country, he said while addressing the second convocation ceremony of the Lumbini Buddhist University here today.
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